Re: [RP] feature: ignore window `X'

[Shawn Betts]

twb <address@hidden> writes:

> Foolishly, I've been playing around with GNOME(1) et al because I just
> got a new box that'll run it.
> 
> Now I once again have a craving for little CPU and eth1 graphs to tell
> me when my console programs are finished.
> 
> Now the gnome panel (unlike fspanel) tells RP not to WMify it, so you
> can use the ol' <defbarborder L T R B> to make a gap for it.
> 
> It occured to me it might be useful to tell RP to ignore specific
> windows (more on this in a moment), so that you can move them around
> with nawm.
> 
> How to identify the windows is a little tricky.  WinID's are unique,
> but don't carry across executions (same goes for RP-window-number). 
> You could use the WM_NAME string, but it's often yukky and changes for
> stuff like xmms.  I think the best identifier to use is the WM_CLASS
> class/instance pair.  OOffice & Miscellaneous SDL apps don't set these
> usefully, but you're unlikely to use them as monitors :)
> 
> just an idea, beat me down if its too wanky.

Hi twb,

There is already an old hacky hack for this in conf.h in the
source. It's the ignored window list which ignores any window that
matches a string in this list. It needs to be updated a bit, I
think. You *could* use this. What about splitting the frames up and
resizing them and putting the cpu graphs in tiny frames? Naturally
this would work better if those frames were "frozen" so they didn't go
away when you hit C-t Q...that's in the works, I think :).

Shawn